More balloons with COVID supplies launched to NKorea

A South Korean activist said that he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items towards North Korea, days after the North vowed to sternly deal with such activities and made a highly questionable claim they were a source of the virus.South Korean experts doubt North Korea’s moves to blame South Korean balloons and say the intent might be to incite anti-South Korea sentiments and ease public complaints over its handling of the outbreak. A North Korean defector-turned-activist, said his group floated 20 balloons carrying 20,000 masks and tens of thousands of vitamin C and fever-reducing tablets from a South Korean border town. Since North Korea in May admitted to an omicron outbreak of the virus, its state media said about 4.8 million North Koreans have developed fevers but only 74 have died.